Little Sir Echo

The appalling Josh Frydenberg has come out blaming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for the atrocity in Bondi. Always a Liberal. In this he is just echoing the bullshit spouted by the monster of Gaza, Netanyahu¹.

It always disgusts me to see the hypocrisy of people like Frydenberg, who as a minister, was part of a government which used the dog whistle at every opportunity to try to obtain political benefit and votes from the racist halfwits in the Australian population. Whether it be Muslims or Africans², or indeed any brown immigrants³. the dog whistle was used at every possible time where they thought they could gain some political advantage.

This post-White Australia Policy use of the dog whistle goes back to the Howard prime ministership. The Howard government lied about asylum seekers throwing children overboard, and demonised asylum seekers and used the Tampa incident to win an election⁴.

After Shire Ali murdered a person in Bourke Street in 2018, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison brought out the dog-whistle. He called on Muslim leaders to take “special responsibility” for stamping out radicalism in their communities, saying they must “call it out for what it is”, and has pointed out that Islamic extremism was the most dangerous form of radicalism in Australia. Tony Abbott, when Prime Minister, did something equally stupid in berating the Muslim community⁵.

In the Senate, the vacant, idiotic Pauline Hanson of One Nation put forward a motion in two parts. It was, to ask the senate to acknowledge:

• The deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilisation
• That it is OK to be white

28 senators were stupid enough to vote for such egregious white supremacist nonsense. Those who voted for it include a rancid pile of Coalition senators Abetz, Anning, Bernardi, Birmingham, Brockman, Bushby, Canavan, Cash, Colbeck, Duniam, Fierravanti-Wells, Fifield, Georgiou, Gichuhi, Hanson, Hume, Leyonhjelm, McGrath, McKenzie, Molan, O’Sullivan, Reynolds, Ruston, Scullion, Seselja, Smith, Stoker and Williams. If they had a modicum of intelligence, they would have known that this crap had been spread by neo-Nazis and white-supremacists including the Ku Klux Klan⁶.

Jewish Australians are part of multicultural Australia, as are Muslim Australians. However, some of the Coalition’s most avid supporters in the media look upon the word ‘multicultural’ as a dirty word. They blame it for ruining Christmas, and blame it for violence. They have even blamed it for the second wave of Covid-19. Some were even more specific in blaming that wave on Australians of South Sudanese origin. Indeed, even some of the elected members of Coalition parties hate multiculturalism, believing it has failed, this even extended to boycotting the February 2008 apology to the stolen generation delivered by Kevin Rudd⁷. One of those (Peter Dutton) who boycotted the apology, went on to lead the Liberal Party to their fortunately massive rejection at the 2025 election⁸.

Back in 2019, then Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg tweeted the following:

“I’m deeply concerned about the reports of children as young as 5 being attacked in schools because of their Jewishness. It’s completely unacceptable in our civilised society & State & Federal Govts must work together to educate our community about the atrocities of the Holocaust.”1

This coming from a member of the then government shows an exceptional lack of awareness of the impact of one’s own actions. Frydenberg’s government’s readiness to use the dog whistle was made clear when the reports were leaked of then shadow minister Morrison’s suggestion, in a shadow cabinet meeting, that the government should use community fear of Muslims to political advantage.

What Frydenberg fails to understand is that once a government unleashes bigotry, it gives licence to ALL bigotry, not just that against Muslims, and once this genie is out of the bottle, it cannot easily be put back in. 

Unlike Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison and Howard before them, Paul Keating understood this when he said: “I think it’s a Prime Minister’s duty; one of the primary duties of a Prime Minister is to protect the country from prejudice. Howard was happy to let the racism virus out. And it’s like a flu virus, you never get it back. You know, when someone at the top of the system … you see Bob before me, Malcolm Fraser before him, Gough Whitlam, John Gorton – none of us would play around with this issue. None. The only one to do it was a little guy from Bennelong”⁹.

That little guy from Bennelong was the bastard John Howard. Frydenberg is a disgrace in blaming Albanese for bigotry that his side of the political spectrum have used to their political advantage at every opportunity.

Sources

1. https://blotreport.com/2025/12/15/bondi-2025/
2. https://blotreport.com/2018/01/01/dogwhistles-for-christmas/
3. https://blotreport.com/2018/11/20/yet-another-dog-whistle/
4. https://blotreport.com/2021/05/30/james-short-memory/
5. https://blotreport.com/2018/11/11/desperate-dog-whistler/
6. https://blotreport.com/2022/03/22/why-i-cannot-vote-for-the-morrison-government-racism-and-idiocy/
7. https://blotreport.com/2021/02/25/no-care-no-responsibility-4/
8. https://blotreport.com/2025/06/12/awful-arse/
9. https://blotreport.com/2019/10/08/the-bigotry-genie/